The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-01-14
u or INSANITY.
some Odd Instances Noted-How the
Sane Mind Approaches the Insan
state During Dreamy sleep
Notes TaKen by an Asylum
Expert.

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Notes Taken by an Asylum
Expert.
The testimony SO frequently given by
those who have recovered from insani-
ty that the whole period of their disease
now appears to them as a dream would
seem to show that there is a great sim
ilarity between insanity and the state
OF dreaming. Some of these people
say that this time appears to them as q
happy dream, others say that it was
painful and gloomy, even frightful as a
nightmare.
A gardener received a fright from a
man dressed as u bear. and did not
speak for fifty-two years. but appeared
to initiate a bear with growls and mov-
ing of his body. Just before death his
mind returned, and he spoke nationally
to those about him.
A man who for three years did not
speak a word, suddenly recovered his
reason a few days before death. This
man also for three years did not eat
voluntarily, but was fed twice a day
during that period by the stomach tube.
Cases also occur in which a sort of wax
ing dream takes place during ordinary
consciousness. Thus a lady suddenly
during conversation would stop and
talk OF something else. In the course
of a few minutes she would again re-
sumo the former conversation at the
sentence and word at which she had
broken off. She was utterly unconscious
of the interruption. A lady in New
York suddenly became snsane while
working at some fine embroidery. She
remained insane for eve years, and
as suddenly became sane. She resumed
her embroidery as though she had only
been absent from it for an hour.
A soldier in Germany thought he had
been dead ever since the battle of Aus
t%erlitz, in which he was severely wound
ed. When any one asked him how he
was he answered: You ask how Father
Lambert is, but Father Lambert is no
more. He was carried off by a cannon
ball at Austerlitz. That which you now
see is not him, but merely a clumsy ma
| chime made to resemble him. PRAY
make another" When he spoke of
himself he never said a." but always
lit
A man in France thought he was a
wolf and killed a number of people.
When captured he said: 81 am really
a wolf. and the reason why my skin is
not hairy like a wolf is that it is revers-
ed and the hairs are inside" To con-
vince them of this he cut his body to
such an extent that he died from his
wounds.
The sensation OF being so light as to
be able to fly is quite common in
dreams, as is also the sensation of be-
ing so heavy as to be unable to move,
or the sensation that our limbs will not
move, no matter how hard we try.
This same thing has been observed in
the insane. Thus a man sometimes felt
his body of such an extraordinary
weight that he could scarcely stand up
right, and at other times SO light that
it seemed as though he rose from the
floor and flew; besides. his body and
limbs seemed of such an enormous size
that it was impossible for him to pass
through a door.
Thus it is seen hat the sane mind
approaches. nearest the insane state
during dreamy sleep, and we a better
understand the workings of ar insane
mind by keeping this fact in view
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